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In this Sunday, June 19, 2016 photo, men wait outside the al-Makhtoum mosque in Zarqa, Jordan for the body of Nasser Idreis to be transported to the cemetery for burial. Idreis died of implications of a liver infection while in prison for allegedly supporting Islamic State. Hundreds of suspected backers of the Islamic State group in Jordan have been sentenced to prison, are awaiting trial or are being held for questioning in a heavy crackdown by the kingdom under toughened anti-terror laws that punish even liking or sharing IS material on social media. (Layla Quran/AP Photo)

AP Interview: Jordan eager to reach nuke deal with US

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

Sunni volunteer fighters parade through Khalidiya, Iraq, as they prepare to support Iraqi security forces in liberating the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants on Oct. 10, 2015. (Associated Press)

Iraq’s Sunni sheikhs decry lack of U.S. help in ISIS fight, say Russia eager to fill void

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Military chief of Libya's internationally recognized government, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Hifter said in an interview that he is &quot;betting on a military solution&quot; if U.N.-led talks fail to end a conflict that has split the country in half. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

AP Interview: Libya army chief bets on military solution

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

This Nov. 13, 2005, file photo made from television shows Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi opening her jacket and showing an explosive belt as she confesses on Jordanian state-run television to her failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al Qaeda. (AP Photo/Jordanian TV, File) ** FILE **

Jordan executes Sajida al-Rishawi and other al Qaeda prisoner after Islamic State kills pilot

By Karin Laub and Omar Akour - Associated Press

Vatican commission to oversee Catholic university in Jordan

Catholic News Agency

Protesters chant "Free Goto" during a demonstration in front of the Prime Minister's Official residence in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Freelance journalist Kenji Goto was seized in late October in Syria, apparently while trying to rescue another hostage, Haruna Yukawa, who was captured by the militants last summer. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Islamic State group silent as deadline passes with no swap

By Elaine Kurtenbach and Karin Laub - Associated Press

A man comforts the wife of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who is held by the Islamic State group militants, during a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Jordan on Wednesday offered a precedent-setting prisoner swap to the Islamic State group in a desperate attempt to save a Jordanian air force pilot the militants purportedly threatened to kill, along with a Japanese hostage. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan to Islamic State: Need proof captive pilot is alive before any trade

By Karin Laub and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Iraqi Christians pray during New Year's mass at the Chaldean Mar Gorges Church in Baghdad, Iraq. In Iraq's war-scarred capital, authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city's center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi Christians: There’s no going home after rise of Islamic State

By Kevin J. Jones - Catholic News Agency

In this Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, file photo, radical al Qaeda-linked preacher Abu Qatada speaks to the press prior to his verdict at the Jordanian military court in Amman, Jordan. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, a Jordanian military court acquitted Abu Qatada on terrorism charges, for his role in plotting attacks against Americans and Israelis, ruling there was insufficient evidence. The decision was handed down in the case presided over by civilian judges in the Jordanian capital, Amman. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Jordan acquits radical cleric of terrorism charges

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington. Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week to meet with Mideast leaders about confronting threats from the Islamic State militant group. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the meetings with will focus on how the region can contribute to a new crackdown against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

US fears Islamic State group attack on Jordan

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

Illustration on ISIS's threat to Jordan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MAY: Barbarians at Jordan’s gate

By Clifford D. May

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is welcomed upon his arrival in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Pope lands in Jordan, calls for greater Christian-Muslim coexistence in Middle East

Associated Press